Health and Home Care

Healthcare: Make Your Voice Heard

Is U.S Government 'for the people and by the people?'

Several weeks ago I wrote a column in relation to some proposed changes to Healthcare in America and my thoughts regarding those changes. Low and behold others must have felt the same. I think we should all take another long hard look at this ‘healthcare proposal’ of Paul Ryan’s and all others that are presented and then we must be prepared to voice our approval or dislike - loudly! I have said it before, the Boomers have a strong influence and lately with the mortgage fraud and financial manipulation of securitized investments, many of our contemporaries have seen their retirement funds dwindled to nothing or near to nothing.  On top of all that some government leaders, such as Ryan, were thinking of causing those very same Boomer-Seniors…

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Foxborough’s Budget Buster: Healthcare Costs

Town Manager, Kevin Paicos, names healthcare Foxborough’s biggest budget buster

Foxborough’s Town Manager Kevin Paicos tackled the subject of how to pay for healthcare costs in a Q and A with Foxborough Patch: The biggest issue facing any organization is healthcare costs. How do you expect this is going to effect the town this year? If heath insurance companies raise their premiums, what is the town going to do and what are your options? Healthcare is our single biggest budget buster. We are proposing to our employees, a number of the labor groups already know, others will be told as we move along, that we want to increase the co-pays. Right now, if you are an employee of this town, you make a $5 dollar co-pay. A $5 dollar co-pay pretty much ceased to exist in the private sector a decade ago and even in government. …

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